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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deposits, banks have been giving away everything from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Bank Rolls | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...huge exhibition, which opened last month at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Age of Spirituality," assembled under the direction of Art Historian Kurt Weitzmann, is a magnificent compendium of some 450 works in every medium known to the ancient world?marble carvings, glass, gold, jewelry, silver, paint, cameos, cloth, mosaic, ivory, bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Between Olympus and Golgotha | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...million. Dederich draws an annual salary of $100,000 and pays his top corporate officers from $30,000 to $50,000. "A lot of guys could do this thing from an old Ford roadster and sit on an orange crate," he says, while munching on powdered lettuce from a silver bowl. "They're holy men; I'm not. I need a $17,000 Cadillac. We are in the people business just exactly as if we were building Chevrolet axles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life at Synanon Is Swinging | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...they both copy the star's own hysterical acting style, they fade quickly into the chaotic background. Wilder's performance is just a broader version of the routine he invented a decade ago in The Producers. His one big scene with Richard Pryor in the otherwise feckless Silver Streak is funnier than all 90 minutes of his mugging here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dim Homage to a Comic Master | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

They were talking about Hackett's record-shattering performance in his first race as a Harvard swimmer. Hackett, a silver-medalist in the 1500-meter freestyle at the Montreal Olympics, opened his Harvard career Saturday by gilding, apparently effortlessly, to victory in the 200-yd. freestyle with a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hackett's Debut a Smash | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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